PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine how clinical team leadership can facilitate a collaborative team and, in doing so, drive change in a health service. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Ethnographic field work was conducted with a clinical team, comprised of 13 health professionals, in community health, in Sydney Australia. Utilising semi-structured interviews, data were co...

BACKGROUND The number of people with multiple chronic conditions requiring primary care services increases. Professionals from different disciplines collaborate and coordinate care to deal with the complex health care needs. There is lack of information on current practices regarding interprofessional team (IPT) meetings. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to improve our understanding of the process...

One of the anomalies after the 1974 reorganisation of the National Health Service was the creation of joint care planning teams at area level and health care planning teams at district level, with no formal mechanism for direct communication between the two. The first mention of joint care planning teams was in a Department of Health and Social Security circular published in 1976.1 These teams ...

background: primary health care is the major infrastructure of health care systems. it is clear that making and improving primary health care information systems would not be possible without awareness of their condition. therefore, this comparative study was conducted in order to determine the situation of primary health care information systems in health centers of tehran, iran. methods: this...

there are four main types of integration. These are: integration of GPs and other primary care professionals in the primary health care team; integration of the primary health care team with other health care professionals working in the community (e.g. district nurses, health visitors, allied health professionals and pharmacists); integration of the primary health care team, other health care ...

BACKGROUND "Integrative health care" has become a common term to describe teams of health care providers working together to provide patient care. However this term has not been well-defined and likely means many different things to different people. The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework for describing, comparing and evaluating different forms of team-oriented health ca...

Aim A comparative analysis of concepts and practices of GP-nurse collaborations in primary health centres in Slovenia and Spain. BACKGROUND Cross-professional collaboration is considered a key element for providing high-quality comprehensive care by combining the expertise of various professions. In many countries, nurses are also being given new and more extensive responsibilities. Implement...

Background. Self-management support and team-based care are essential elements of the Chronic Care Model but are often limited by staff availability and reimbursement. Mobile phones are a promising platform for improving chronic care but there are few examples of successful health system implementation. Program Development. An iterative process of program design was built upon a pilot study and...